Very nice tutorial..it's really well laid-out, easy to follow with clear instructions and it helps anybody create a nice vector effect on photographs...well done!!P.S How do you go about creating a tutorial?

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Hehe, VERY cool resource you got here, dude. Just what I was lookin' for. I wanna get into this vector thing for a change, and I get the feeling your tutorial is gonna be something I'ma be readin' a whole lot Thanks a bunch and kudos on the good job, man,

Nice Tutorial!
I've been looking for one for quite some time.
Nice to see you share your knowledge with us.

One gripe though. You haven't included the original Skyline image, so it's impossible to judge how the vector drawing looks different from the actual picture.

I hope you'll follow this up with one on how to execute the details, for example the ones on the rear wheel arch flap, or the pattern of the light besides the number plate, plus other methods of gradients and fills.

Hope you'll give a thought to those suggestions.
Looking forward to more tutorials from you, especially for newbies.

Faving so I can come back to it when exams are over... ><! Anyway, this looks great. Just wondering, do you know of any vector tutorials that don't need the pen tool, just a tablet, so that I can use Photoshop Elements? I've got version 3.0 *runs from all the sniggering overly-arty pplz....* Ok, so it's not the best, but it works!

so tell me if i'm gettin it right.. you are using gradients all over your vectors? ... because if you visit my page and see the skyline i made, i din use any gradients but i guess i should have, am i right? .. i'm new to vectoring so please correct me if i'm wrong..

I use a mixture of block colours and gradients. You don't have to follow the tutorial exactly though. This exact tutorial is for making real, scalable vectors. The skyline image you speak of doesn't look like it's actually vector.

Sorry, it's hard to explain. If you want to follow the tutorial then do so.

Just a note: as long as jpg's are raster-based, anything saved as a jpg will never be a true vector. So far only .pdf's, those weird macromedia files, and .svg files can actually display vector images that can be scaled to any resize without quality loss.

You can test this by zooming in 100x and seeing if the image gets pixelated as you do so.

The .psd you end up with from this is a vector, which you can scale to whatever size you need. Then, you have to raster it when you save it as a .jpg or .png or whatever for web use, but if you ever need it at a higher resolution you can still go back to the .psd and scale it up some more.